Part 2

Remus sat watching Harry with his friends. He knew that Draco and Hermione were engaged and that Charlie was devoted to Severus and that Harry had no interest in woman at all but it still tore at Remus as he watched the overly affectionate object of his own affections flirt innocently with everyone else. Not that he flirted with Arthur or Severus but he was certainly friendlier with everyone else than with him.

'You know he just doesn't want to let you to close in case,' Severus said softly as he handed Remus a glass of brown fizzy liquid.

'Oh my favourite, how did you know?' Remus gushed as he accepted the glass of fizzy brown soda.

'You haven't even tried it how do you know what it is?' he asked, sitting beside Remus with his own glass of clear soda.

Remus grinned, 'I can smell it,' he replied, taking along drink.

'It's his favourite too,' Severus commented as he took a pull from his own glass. They sat in silence for a few minutes.

'I don't know if I can do this to him,' Remus said as he stirred his drink with his bendy straw.

'Do what?' Severus asked wanting to hear why Remus was so reluctant to tell Harry what the boy, young man, meant to him.

'He's still young, he has his whole life ahead of him, he doesn't need to be tied to a useless old werewolf when he could have his choice of any number of young men or women,' he replied bitterly.

'You know, he's had a lot of decisions made for him, you really should let him make one or two, let him decide who he wants to spend his life with,' Severus said as Charlie appeared.

'We need a ref,' he stated looking at Severus expectantly.

'I don't know why you think I'll do it,' Severus replied blithely, as he found his drink quite fascinating.

Charlie pouted but winked at Remus, 'Come on Sev, please? I know you know want to join us,' he pleaded as he dropped elegantly to his knees, in what was a well practiced move.

Severus eyed Charlie critically, 'Does it have to be me?' he asked, and Remus sure he was pouting, not that Snape would ever admit to doing something so childish.

'Please, Sev,' Charlie asked as he ran his hands up the older man's thighs.

Severus gave a put upon sigh and drank down the rest of his soda before standing, 'you get to ref the next game Lupin,' he said as he set his glass on the step where he'd been sitting.

'Tell him, Wolf,' Snape said before he left for the make shift pitch in the field.

'He wants nothing more than what you can offer him,' Charlie added as he followed the older man to the laughing youths.

'They're right,' Arthur offered as he took Severus' seat.

'Why?' Remus was getting a little tired of everyone telling him what he should be doing. He suddenly understood a little of what Harry was feeling.

'Because he is so much older than his peers, he needs someone who can take care of him, who can look after him, guide him. Be someone he can trust who won't leave him, who will treat him like the adult he is and not the child he looks like.'

Remus gave a sigh; he didn't know what to say.

'Besides, you need him just as much as he needs you.'

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